EHR Incentives

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CMS To Recover $31M In EHR Incentive Payments

Posted on by Frank J. Rosello

One Florida-based hospital management group is now in a rush to revise its financial statements after realizing it owes the government more than $31 million because the group recorded the hospitals’ Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record payments as income. … Continue reading

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CMS Reports EHR Incentive Payouts Climb

Posted on by Frank J. Rosello

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Serives (CMS) has paid more than $9.3 billion in Medicare EHR Incentive Program payments between May 2011 and June 2013, according to the recent release of the latest program statistics. More than $5.8 billion … Continue reading

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CMS Deputy Director Offers Tips On Avoiding EHR Incentive Payment Adjustments

Posted on by Frank J. Rosello

Medicare eligible professionals (EPs) who do not demonstrate meaningful use for the Medicare EHR Incentive Program may be subject to a payment adjustment beginning Jan. 1, 2015.   For EPs who entered the program between 2011 and 2013, this year’s … Continue reading

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CMS Reports $14.6 Billion Meaningful Use Incentives Paid

Posted on by Frank J. Rosello

As of the end of April, the federal government has paid out $14.6 billion in EHR incentive payments, according to Robert Anthony, deputy director of the HIT Initiative Group at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Office of E-Health … Continue reading

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CMS Reports EHR Incentive Payments Surpass $13B

Posted on by Frank J. Rosello

Continuing the upward trajectory of EHR reimbursements flowing out into the healthcare industry, CMS said on Tuesday morning that the total paid as of March’s end is more than $13.7 billion. “March was a very big month,” said Rob Anthony … Continue reading

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EHR Incentive Payments Reach $12 Billion

Posted on by Frank J. Rosello

With some healthcare providers now into their second year of meaningful use reporting, Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record payments were estimated at $12.3 billion paid to a total of 219,000 physicians and hospitals through the end of February 2013 … Continue reading

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US Sequester Will Affect Medicare EHR Incentive Program

Posted on by Frank J. Rosello

The fiscal trap that members of Congress and the president set for themselves will punch a 2% hole in one of the federal electronic health-record incentive payment programs under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a federal official has confirmed.The … Continue reading

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EHR Incentive Payments Now Total Over Ten Billion

Posted on by Frank J. Rosello

Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record payments are estimated to have blasted through $10.3 billion to a total of 180,200 physicians and hospitals through December 2012 since the program’s inception. December’s payments of $1.25 billion were driven by the largest … Continue reading

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GAO Report Examines 2011 CMS EHR Incentive Payments

Posted on by Frank J. Rosello

A new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) examines how the Medicaid EHR incentive payments were distributed in 2011. According to the report, released Dec. 13, the amount of Medicaid EHR incentive payments awarded to each hospital ranged from … Continue reading

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CMS EHR Incentive Program Payments Top $9 Billion Through November 2012

Posted on by Frank J. Rosello

Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record incentive  payments are estimated to have reached $9.245 billion to 177,100 physicians and hospitals through November since the program’s inception and are anticipated to reach $10 billion by the end of the year. During … Continue reading

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